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September 24, 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Devastaing storm surge destroyed coastal communities in Cameron Parish such as Holly Beach, but only one person was killed throughout the state due to mass evacuations which were heeded in the wake ...
A map of radar-estimated rainfall accumulations across Louisiana between August 9 and 16, 2016; areas shaded in white indicate accumulations in excess of 20 in (510 mm). Early on August 11, a mesoscale convective system flared up in southern Louisiana around a weak area of low pressure that was situated next to an outflow boundary.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
Francine made landfall over the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane early Wednesday evening before quickly weakening to a tropical storm. Maps show Tropical Storm Francine's path and ...
0–9. Tropical Depression Five (2010) 1812 Louisiana hurricane; 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane; Racer's hurricane; 1856 Last Island hurricane; 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane
As peak hurricane season approaches, the organization that tracks them is making changes to how it visually maps storm forecasts. To provide more detailed predictions, the National Hurricane ...
US 51 Bus. is classified by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD) as an urban minor arterial in Ponchatoula and as an urban principal arterial in Hammond. The average daily traffic volume in 2013 was reported as reaching peaks of 28,000 and 31,500 vehicles in Ponchatoula and Hammond, respectively.
Over 40,000 people are without power in southern Louisiana as Hurricane Francine slammed into the Gulf Coast Wednesday afternoon.. As of 7:15 p.m. EST, over 70% of Terrebonne Parrish, where the ...